Maxine Chernoff

[a dollar love]

his death

would be

the first future

to break (gently)

when it came

(confidence based

on a rate of exchange)


& love’s

poor stowaway

innocent

or calculated –

(marriage and children

Reno and divorce)

compared to

the love

that knows

no future –

hollow

emptied

spare in its vows

which,

without language

speaks

of not holding.

 

summer 2004
 
maxine chernoff
jewelle gomez
katherine hastings
paul hoover
denise newman
dan o'connell
vasko popa
aaron shurin
evelyn posamentier
 
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